Antisemitism and the Development of Nazi Policy
Seminar questions:
What was the role of popular antisemitism in the radicalisation of policy towards the Jews?
Discuss the concept of "social death".
How did ordinary German neighbours support, both actively and passively, antisemitic attitudes?; and what is their responsibility regarding the treatment of the Jews?
What responses, if any, could German Jews take, and what were the barriers to enacting those responses?
Core readings:
Bergen, ch. 1.
Kaplan, Between Dignity, introduction, ch. 1, 2 and 5.
Extended readings:
Werner Angress, Witness to the storm: a Jewish journey from Nazi Berlin to the 82nd Airborne, 1920-1945 (Durham: Miriam Angress, 2012).
Alexandra Garbarini, Numbered Days: Diaries and the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
Amos Goldberg, Trauma in First Person Diary Writing During the Holocaust (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017).
Shira Klein, Italy's Jews from emancipation to fascism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Otto Dov Kulka and Everhard Jäckel, The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in German 1933-1945 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
Paul Mendes-Flohr, German Jews: A Dual Identity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Guy Miron, "The “Lived Time” of German Jews under the Nazi Regime," The Journal of Modern History 90 (March 2018): 116–153.
Michele Sarfatti, The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution (Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2007).
Kim Wünschmann, Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps (Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press 2015).
Susan Zuccotti, The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecutiuon, Rescue, and Survival (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).
selected articles from Sybille Quack, ed. Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Rose Holmes, "Love, labour, loss: women, refugees and the servant crisis in Britain, 1933–1939," Women's History Review, 2017, pp. 288-309.
David Bankier, Probing the depths of German antisemitism : German society and the persecution of the Jews, 1933-1941 (New York: Berghahn, 2000).
Judith Gerson, "In Cuba I was a German Shepherd: Questions of Comparison and Generelizibility in Holocaust Memoirs," Sociology Confronts the Holocaust. Sociology Confronts the Holocaust, eds. Judith Gerson and Diane Wolf (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. 115-133.
Francis Nicosia, Nazi Germany and the Arab World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Sybille Quack, ed. Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Rose Holmes and Laura Brade, “Troublesome Sainthood: Nicholas Winton and the Contested History of Child Rescue in Prague, 1938–1940,” History and Memory, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2017), pp. 3-40.
Marion Kaplan, Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940-1945 (New York: Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2008).
Michael Wildt, Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the dynamics of racial exclusion : violence against Jews in provincial Germany, 1919-1939 (New York: Berghahn, 2012).